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After nearly a half century as professor of Sanskrit at the University, Professor C. R. Lanman, editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, will resign and become Professor Emeritus, it was announced yesterday by the University office. Dr. Lanman came to the University in 1880 and in 1903 was appointed as the first occupant of the then newly established Wales Professorship of Sanskrit...
...More graduated from Washington University in 1887, and received degrees subsequently from Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth and Princeton. After one year at the University as assistant in Sanskrit, he has been away from Cambridge for thirty years, and returns after a widely varied career...
...which it much resembles. Two thousand and more years ago it was written (some say) in the fastnesses of Kashmir, by whom one cannot know, but surely by a great man, for its stories are retold the world over. Never before has it been completely translated from its original Sanskrit into English...
...give a course in Hellenistic Philosophy, is one of the country's most brilliant philologists, as well as being an editor and author known universally for his writings. He is now editor of The Nation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He taught Sanskrit at Harvard in 1894, later taught at Bryn Mawr, and subsequently became Literary Editor of The Independent, and The New York Evening Post. Professor More has published 11 volumes of "Shelburne Essays" and numerous philosophical works
...first became interested in Buddhism when studying in Germany with a fellow-student, Vasaharu Anesaki, whose father was a Buddhist priest in Japan. His intimacy with Anesaki continued far many years. They lived together in the house of Professor Deussen of Kiel, studied Sanskrit together and went to India, where they studied in Benares...